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Fast Track Passes House
UPDATE: Fast Track passes 215-214. California Democrats Calvin M. Dooley and Susan Davis voted for the bill .

The "Presidential Trade Promotion Authority" or Fast Track bill passed through the United States House of Representatives Thursday, winning approval by one vote . The bill clears the way for President Bush to have unprecedented power in determining trade treaties, which many of critics of globalization believe will allow the FTAA to deepen NAFTA and the international effect of the World Trade Organization.

For more information on Fast Track, see People for Fair Trade, the AFL-CIO, Public Citizen, the Sierra Club and Oxfam.

[ Public Citizen's Fast Track Site | Fast Track Passage Won't Defeat the "Seattle Coalition" | t r u t h o u t -- Gephardt Floor Statement ]



War on Terrorism, War on Dissent
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering letting go of the few restrictions on the FBI that protect citizens from unreasonable searches and surveillance, and possibly return to the abuses and criminal behavior associated with the J. Edgar Hoover era in what the NY Times described as "another step by the Bush administration to modify civil-liberties protections as a means of defending the country against terrorists.

"The relaxation of the guidelines would follow administration measures to establish military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorism; to seek out and question 5,000 immigrants, most of them Muslims, who have entered the United States since January 2000; and to arrest more than 1,200 people, nearly all of whom are unconnected to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and hold hundreds of them in jail ."

 If the attorney general gets his way, there will probably be an escalation in the harassment and prosecution of political activists, something common since the 60's under the FBI's secret COINTELPRO program. Peace and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. , were regularly kept under surveillance, and in some extremes individuals were framed with false evidence, or were murdered like Black Panther Fred Hampton . While a Congressional order supposedly ended the program in 1971, it continued well into the present with the incarcerations of Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal , and also the framing and attempted murder of environmental activist Judi Bari . More recently, the Seattle IMC received a visit from the FBI this past spring, and individual volunteers have also been contacted.

Thursday, Ashcroft tried to defend these tactics before Congress, and claimed that his critics "aid terrorists."

| The USA - PATRIOT Act (H.R.3162) | Globe snd Mail: The war on dissent | NPR: Liberty vs. Security | ACLU | NLG report: Waging War Against Dissent | Black Panther Party | Democracy Now! Interview with Fred Hampton's widow | Nat Hentoff: The Worst Assault On Our Liberties | 12 ways to protect your online privacy | Why New Law-Enforcement Powers Worry Civil Libertarians | Media Education Foundation | The Red Scare | McCarthyism | StopCarnivore.org | FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Electronic Reading Room |

[ Prisons & Police Brutality IMC | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Political Research Associates ]


SoCal Artist Gallery in response to S11
The LA-IMC sent out an announcement to SoCal artists of all stripes asking for projects or ideas that they had in response to the post S11 situation. The idea of the project was to present projects, AND the ideas behind the projects. Though surely not an exhaustive survey, the idea was to present the wide array of cultural production occuring in SoCal. With an aim to inspire, the curators promised to include every project they caught wind of, even projects that they didn't like.

  • The following are images of an online protest in a virtual community by the Desktop theatre; 1-2-3
  • The following are texts to be read as art; One byRobert Herbst, another by Ken Ehrlich.
  • Here are descriptions of videos done by Jessica Lawless, Jayce Salloum , and presented by War and Peace Films and Scripps College.
  • Here are images and text at the Lord Mori Gallery, and from Track 16 Gallery and of a performance at Highways Performance Space .
  • Posters designed by Tom Texas Holmes[image,text], by Ritee Tarugsa [BinChe image text, Drunken Injune image, text, and Chino Project]. Also are 3 posters for cars by Shawn McDougal [1, 2, 3] and a photo collage by Liberty and Justice for All, and a flyer by Raise The Fist. And check out one of Mark Vallens Art For Change posters too.
  • Stickers designed by the Aqua Coalition, and three by Jessica Lawless [1,2,3]
  • Site Specific Interventions by Kat Scraba, by the Free Radicals. Also, check out this project by Miki Seifert and William Franco,they made a virtual Dia De Los Muertos Alter with an element devoted to Afganistan first displayed online in a park, then projected onto buildings around LA.
  • And randomly, the Artist's Network of Refuse and Resist has a link to an image of a t-shirt designed in LA regarding the deaths at the WTC. A drawing posted by Charles Amsellem. Finally, musician Joseph Brennan tells about apiano solo played in memory of those who died in the WTC.
  • The artist discussion collaborative Nomads and Residents (N+R) held an event entitled MEDIA REPRESENTATION/ WOMEN/ AFGHANASTAN/ PAKISTAN. N+R Member Rachael Mayeri discusses the event. Brian O'Connel wrote about the CalArts teach-in/forum on the role of the cultural producer during war.



    [ Legacy Project website | Robbie Conal ]




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